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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of Computer Science
Real-Time & Distributed Systems Research Group



Listing of the UNC DiRT group's published work that is currently available on-line

(Listed in alphabetical order by title)

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A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
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A

Accommodating Late-Comers in Shared Window Systems
IEEE Computer, January 1993.
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Accounting for Interrupt Handling Costs in Dynamic Priority Task Systems
IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, December 1993
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Adaptive, Best-Effort, Delivery of Audio and Video Data Across Packet-Switched Networks
Intl. Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video,
November 1992.
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Adaptive, Best-Effort Delivery of Live Audio and Video Across Packet-Switched Networks
(VHS Video)
ACM Multimedia '94, October 1994.
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video (~3 Mbytes).

Application-Level Measurements of Performance on the vBNS
IEEE Intl. Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, June 1999.
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Analysis of a Synchronization and Scheduling Discipline for Real-Time Tasks with Preemption Constraints
IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, December 1989
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Analyzing the Real-Time Properties of a Dataflow Execution Paradigm using a Synthetic Aperture Radar Application
IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium, June 1997.
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Analyzing the Real-Time Properties of a U.S. Navy Signal Processing System
IEEE Symposium on High Assurance Systems Engineering, November 1999.
(A revised and expanded version of this paper also appears in: International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering.)
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An Architecture for a Shared Distributed Window System
IEEE Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises,
April 1994.
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Architecture of the Artifact-Based Collaboration System Matrix
ACM Confernece on CSCW, Nov. 1992.
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B

A Better-Than-Best-Effort Service for Continuous Media UDP Flows
Intl. Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital
Audio and Video, July 1998.
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Beyond Audio and Video: Multimedia Networking Support for Distributed, Immersive Virtual Environments
EUROMICRO 2001, September 2001.
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Beyond Window Sharing Hacks: Support for First-Class Window Sharing
Technical Report, University of North Carolina, April 1997.
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C

A Comparative Study of the Realization of Rate-Based Computing Services in General Purpose Operating Systems
IEEE Conference on Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications, December 2000
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Corset & Lace: Adapting Ada Runtime Support to Real-Time Systems
IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, December 1987
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D

Delay-Based Early Congestion Detection and Adaptation in TCP: Impact on web performance
Computer Communications, 2005.
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Designing a Workstation-Based Conferencing System Using the Real-Time Producer/Consumer Paradigm
Intl. Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video,
November 1990.
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The Design, Implementation, and Use of a Sporadic Tasking Model
Technical Report, University of North Carolina, March 1997.
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Differential Congestion Notification: Taming the Elephants
IEEE ICNP 2004, Berlin, Germany, October 2004.
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Distributed Real-Time Dataflow: An Execution Paradigm for Image Processing and Anti-Submarine Warfare Applications
IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, December 1996.
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On the Duality between Resource Reservation and Proportional Share Resource Allocation
SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking 1997, February 1997.
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Dynamic Participation in a Computer-based Conferencing System
Computer Communications, January 1994.
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E

Early Prototypes of the Repository for Patterned Injury Data
Digital Libraries '95, The Second Annual Conference on the Theory and
Practice of Digital Libraries, June 1994.
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The Effects of Active Queue Management on Web Performance
ACM SIGCOMM 2003, August 2003.
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Efficient Object Sharing in Quantum-Based Real-Time Systems
IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, December 1998.
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An Empirical Study of a Jitter Management Scheme for Video Teleconferencing
ACM Multimedia Systems, January 1995.
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Experiments in Best-Effort Multimedia Networking for a Distributed Virtual Environment
ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking 2001, January 2001.
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Extremal Dependence: Internet Traffic Applications
Stochastic Models, 2005.
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Fair On-Line Scheduling of a Dynamic Set of Tasks on a Single Resource
Information Processing Letters, October 1997.
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Feasbility Concerns in PGM Graphs With Bounded Buffers
IEEE Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, September 1997.
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A Framework for Implementing Objects and Scheduling Tasks in Lock-Free Real-Time Systems
IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, December 1996.
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A General Framework for Continuous Media Transmission Control
IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, October 1996.
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Generating Realistic TCP Workloads
CMG International Conference, December 2004.
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An Implementation and Application of the Real-Time Producer/Consumer Paradigm
Technical Report, University of North Carolina, October 1990.
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Implementing Wait-Free Objects on Priority-Based Systems
16th Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, January 1997.
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Issues, Problems, and Solutions in Sharing X Clients on Multiple Displays
Internetworking - Research and Practice, March 1994.
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Kernel Support for Live Digital Audio and Video
Intl. Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video,
November 1991 (also in Computer Communications, July 1992).
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On Kernel Support for Real-Time Multimedia Applications
IEEE Workshop on Workstation Operating Systems, April 1992.
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On Latency Management in Time-Shared Operating Systems
IEEE Workshop on Real-Time Operating Systems and Software, May 1994
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Lightweight Active Router-Queue Management for Multimedia Networking
ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking 1999, January 1999.
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Lock-Free Transactions for Real-Time Systems
Workshop on Real-Time Databases: Issues and Applications, March 1996.
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Managing Latency and Buffer Requirements in Processing Graph Chains
The Computer Journal, 2001
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Managing Memory Requirements in the Synthesis of Real-Time Systems from Processing Graphs
IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium, June 1998.
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A New Look at Pfair Priorities
in submission.
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On Non-Preemptive Scheduling of Periodic and Sporadic Tasks
IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, December 1991.
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O, P

On the Partitioning of Function in Distributed Synchronous Collaboration Systems
ACM CSCW '94, Proceedings of the Workshop on Distributed Systems, Multimedia, and
Infrastructure Support in CSCW, October 1994.
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Parallel Switching in Connection-Oriented Networks
IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, December 1999.
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A Patterned Injury Digital Library for Collaborative Forensic Medicine
Digital Libraries '94, Conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, June 1994.
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The Performance of Two-Dimensional Media Scaling for Internet Videoconferencing
Intl. Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital
Audio and Video, May 1997.
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Predicting Worst Case Execution Times on a Pipelined RISC Processor
Technical Report, University of North Carolina, April 1994.
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A Proportional Share Resource Allocation Algorithm For Real-Time, Time-Shared Systems
IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, December 1996.
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Proportional Share Scheduling of Operating System Services for Real-Time Applications
IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, December 1998.
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Quantifying the Effects of Recent Protocol Improvements to Standards-Track TCP
IEEE/ACM MASCOTS 2003, Orlando, FL, October 2003.
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Queue Monitoring: A Delay Jitter Management Policy
Intl. Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video,
November 1993.
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A Rate-Based Execution Abstraction For Multimedia Computing
Intl. Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video,
April 1995.
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Rate-Based Resource Allocation Models for Embedded Systems
First International Workshop on Embedded Software, October 2001,
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Real-Time Computing with Lock-Free Shared Objects
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, May 1997
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(An earlier version of this paper appeared in:
IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, December 1995
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Real-Time Object Sharing with Minimal System Support
ACM PODC, May 1996.
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The Real-Time Producer/Consumer Paradigm: A paradigm for the construction of efficient,
predictable real-time systems
ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, February 1993.
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A Router-Based Congestion Control Scheme For Real-Time Continuous Media
Intl. Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital
Audio and Video, April 1996.
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Scheduling Sporadic Tasks with Shared Resources in Hard-Real-Time Systems
IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, December 1992.
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Stochastic Models for Generating Synthetic HTTP Source Traffic
IEEE INFOCOM 2004, March 2004.
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Support For Real-Time Computing Within General Purpose Operating Systems:
Supporting co-resident operating systems
IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium, May 1995.
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The Synthesis of Real-Time Systems from Processing Graphs
IEEE Symposium on High Assurance Systems Engineering, November 2000.
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System Design for Workstation-Based Conferencing With Digital Audio and Video
IEEE Conference on Communication Software: Communications for Distributed
Applications and Systems, April 1991.
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A Theory of Rate-Based Execution
IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, December 1999.
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Towards a Better-Than-Best-Effort Forwarding Service for Multimedia Flows
IEEE Multimedia, December 1999.
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Tracing the Evolution of Web Traffic: 1995-2003
ACM MASCOTS 2003, Orlando, FL, October 2003.
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Transport and Display Mechanisms For Multimedia Conferencing Across Packet-Switched Networks
Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, July 1994.
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Tuning RED for Web Traffic
ACM SIGCOMM '00, August-September 2000 &
ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking, 2001.
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A Two-Dimensional Audio Scaling Enhancement to an Internet Videoconferencing System
Intl. Workshop on Audio-Visual Services over Packet Networks, September 1997.
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Two-Dimensional Scaling Techniques For Adaptive, Rate-Based Transmission Control of Live Audio and Video Streams
ACM Multimedia '94, October 1994.
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Understanding Patterns of TCP Connection Usage with Statistical Clustering
MASCOTS 2005, September 2005.
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Variability in TCP Roundtrip, Times
ACM Internet Measurement Conference, October 2003.
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What TCP/IP Protocol Headers Can Tell Us About the Web
ACM SIGMETRICS 2001/Performance 2001, June 2001.
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YARTOS: Kernel support for efficient, predictable real-time systems
IEEE Workshop on Real-Time Operating Systems and Software, May 1991.
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